Twizzel, I've missed you.
I don't say that grooming doesn't happen, but that there are a lot of well meaning MPs who listen to unreliable stories and think that the net is plagued by people grooming children day and night, whereas 99.99% of the stuff on social networking sites is harmless and often very beneficial. The point is about MPs not understanding what is happening and believing stories of uncertain origin. Let's face it there are people in this country who will believe anything and will take action on it - remember the morons who attacked a paediatrician's house as if paedophiles have signs on the door.
I don't underplay grooming, it's just that it is not being done day and night by millions of people on Youtube or any of the social networking sites, although I do wish the notionally gorgeous and pouting girls from eastern Europe would stop trying to make me their best friend (probably old blokes trying to get me to say something I can be blackmailed for).
I don't underplay treason. If I thought someone had committed a treasonable act within the last 3 years and I had clear proof that would warrant an investigation I would of course go to the Attorney General's Department and make a complaint; I would not take a bundle of dated material, poorly annotated and not providing any real proof to the local nick and ask them to interview a load of dead people.
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When in Woking do as the Wokes do.
"I do not wish to form my opinions by thoughtlessly quoting others; I wish others to support their opinions by sensibly quoting me." Paul Wesson (Aardvark) 13th April 2008
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